Part 1: Go to this site and read about the different Egyptian gods and goddesses. Choose one of these that you would like to be and explain why you would like to be that god or goddess. Then choose one that you would not want to be and explain why. Make sure your explanations are middle school quality explanations. Part 2: Compare these Egyptian gods and goddesses with the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses. Did you find similar gods? Name the gods/goddesses and clearly explain the similarities? Why do you think they are similar even though Egypt and the Mesopotamian civilizations were different?
Assignment 3-3
Source:How to Mummify Nefermaat Directions: Go to the link above to mummify a body. As you work to mummify the body, answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
What are amulets and how were they used? Give two examples of amulets that were used and explain why they were used.
What happens to the body after it was mummified?
Answer
1)----
Assignment 3-2
Source: Pages 93 & 94 in your online textbook and refer to your river boat tour notes Directions: Answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
1. Read the If YOU were there section. How do you feel about working for the pharaoh?
2. Eventually the Third Dynasty began in ancient Egypt. The Third Dynasty was the beginning of what historians call ............. . When did it start and end?
3. Explain how ancient Egyptians felt about their country and their pharaoh.
4. What were the responsibilities of the pharaoh?
5. What is best known about the famous pharaoh, Khufu? Can you name a specific monument built for him?
6.a Clearly explain the structure of society in the Old Kingdom. (Note: This should be a long answer.)
6.b. What may be some advantages and disadvantages of such a large segment of the population being farmers, servants, and slaves?
6.c. What did farmers do during flood season?
7. Clearly explain trading in ancient Egypt (what was traded and who they traded with).
8. Define the word acquire. Use acquire in an original sentence.
9. Using the drawing of Egyptian society on page 94, explain where Viziers would be placed?
Answer
1) Something that I would feel if I were working for pharaoh is that I would not like it to work for him because I don't like to work for other.
2)It's called Old Egypt and it starts at 2700 BCE and ends at 2200 BCE.
3)something that egyptians felt about their pharaoh and their country is that they thought egypt belongs to gods and pharaoh was one of the gods.
4)The responsibilities that pharaohs had was
5)The best known pharaoh at Old Kingdom was Khufu, who ruled in 2500 BCE.
6a)
6b)
6c)Farmers helped pharaohs building project.
7)They traded gold, ivory, leopard skins,ostrich feather, incense, rare woods, and etc.
8) Acquire means "To gain possession of".
9) Assignment 3-1
Source: Carefully read your online textbook pages 88 and 89.(Note: Make sure you scroll down on page 89 to see more information.)
Your task is to label a map of the Nile River and ancient Egypt on your current Scribble Map. You must mark, label, or represent famous sites, cities, and other objects. Label everything carefully.
(Note: Mark means use a marker, label means use a text label, represent means draw a symbol to show the item.)
1. Represent and label the Nile’s Sixth Cataract to the First Cataract. (Use the textbook to help you with this part.)
2. Label the Red Sea.
3. Represent three mines and three quarries. Provide an image and a description for each mine and quarry
4. Represent and label these historic sites: the Valley of the Kings, the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Pharos (lighthouse in the port of Alexandria), and the oasis of Faiyum-Include dates, palm trees, and crocodiles. Provide an image and a description for each historic site
5. Mark these cities: Abydos, Thebes, Hermopolis, Akhetaten, Memphis, Bubastis. Alexandria, Meroe, Khartoum, and Elephantine
6. Label these geographical features: the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nile Delta, the Sinai Peninsula, the Wadi el-Natrun, the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Nubian Desert. Provide an image and a description for each geographical feature.
7. Label Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.
Assignment 2-5
Use your online textbook pages 63 & 64 to answer these questions clearly and with details on your wiki page. Make sure to look through the whole page in your textbook and the links for the vocabulary when answering some of the questions.
Where did the Akkadians live?
What was their relationship with the Sumerians like before the 2300s B.C.E.?
Who was Sargon and what did he do?
What did Sargon establish?
Define 'empire'.
Explain two examples why Sargon is considered a great leader.
How long did Sargon rule his empire?
What eventually happened to the Akkadian Empire?
Who eventally became the most powerful civilization in Mesopotamia again?
Using the picture of the City-State of Ur, what can you see in the picture that shows Ur was an advanced city?
Answer 1:They lived in the north part of Sumer.
2:They lived very peaceful with the Sumerian.
3:Sargon is an Emperor of Akkadians and he had broken the peace with Sumerians.
4:He establish the world's first Emperor.
5:
6:
7:
8:
9:
10:
Assignment 2-1
Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page.Use the links above from the Class Activity 2-1to help you answer the questions.
Event A: Food Shortage
1. What helped the human population to grow in Mesopotamia?
Some thing that helped the human population to grow was the agriculture.
2. What does cultivate mean?
Cultivate means the way to grow food.
3. By 5000 B.C.E. what major problem did the farmers in the Zagros hills have?
The problem that they had was that there is no food to eat for that large populations to eat.
4. Using the choices in the critical thinking section of the activity, what is the best way to deal with the food shortage? Why?
Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply
1. What two major problems did farmers have as they tried to grow their crops on the Mesopotamian river plains?
The two major problem was That the rivers flood by the tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
2. How did they solve these problems?
They solved this problem by make the Dams, Canals, and Reservoirs.
3. Where did the melted snow that caused flooding come from?
The melted snow came from the upper mountain.
Assignment 8
Use these two videos about Catal Huyuk to answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.
1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you?
2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class?
3. Jookie is a 12 year old living in Catal Huyuk. Explain three ways her life is different than yours. (Note: Simply saying you have cell phones and she doesn't is an unacceptable answer.)
Answer:
1)a. From the Catal Huyuk, first thing that expressed me was a way of the surgery of brain, it was so gross and not a good picture.
b. Second thing is a thing that the fathers choose by a bribe that man give.
c. And the last thing is how they started to grow corns.
2) What tool that they used, the houses they used and the crops that they grow.
3) I am different from Jookie by the
Hominids and their Characteristics
1)Australopithecus were available to stand with the two legs.
1)Homo Habilis are the first hominids to use the tools.
2)Homo Habilis were more like a modern people and they a bigger brain.
3)Homo Habilis are also called Handy man.
1)After homo habilis there were another group called homo erectus or upright man.
2)They knew how to control fire and they completely walk with the two legs.
1)And at last there are the Homo sapiens. Aspects of Daily life effects notes
When they started to Growing food people started to stay at the one place.
Because Homo Habilis were available to stand in two legs They were easier to use or make a tool. Vocabulary
Paleolithic
Neolithic
Homo habbilis
Australopithecus
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
Other notes
Ricky, can you tell me the meaning of the vocabulary? I get the word but there is no meaning of it!!-JS Huh
Assignment 7
Write 3 good test questions covering any of the topics we have studied so far.
Answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.
1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period?
2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period?
3. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development of agriculture?
Answer:
1)
Assignment 6
Use your online textbook (p. 40 & p. 41) to answer these questions clearly and completely. Please put your answers on your wiki page.
1. Read the paragraph in the Beginnings of Agriculture section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?).
Read The First Farmers and Plants section on p.41 and answer these questions:
2. What is another name for the New Stone Age?
3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for?
4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now make fire. Which hominid would this be?
5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution?
6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'?
7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia?
8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated?
9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different than a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different.
Answer:
Assignment 5=
Read pages 32-34 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.
Why do historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory?
What might have been one advantage of walking completely upright?
What kind of tools did people use during the Paleolithic Era?
Design a stone and wood tool you could use to help you with your chores. Describe your tool in a sentence or two.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
In your opinion, what was the most important change brought by the development of language?
Define the boldfaced words above.
Answer:
1)Historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory because archaeology and anthropology it is part of the prehistory.
2)The one advantage of walking upright is that you could use your hand very easily and freely.
3)The tools that they used at paleolithic era is the stone tools.
4) a: Fire stone- it is a stone that is use to make a fire.
b: Warming log- it is a log that is burn with the high heat.
5)The hunter-gatherers are the people that around to the places to palces. And had to find the food not by growing.
6)
7)
Assignment 4
Please read pages 29 & 30 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.
1. On which continent were Lucy and other hominids found?
2. What is the scientific name of Lucy?
3. How long ago did Lucy live?
4. What was an important step in human development?
5. Describe and explain how these hominids are different from each other. Use the charts about the hominids on page 30 to help you with the answer.
Make sure your answer is clear and detailed.
Australopithecus
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
6. Which hominid are you?
Answer:
1)They were found in Africa.
2)The scientific name of lucy is Australopithecus.
3)Lucy had lived about 3 million years ago.
4)The important step in human development is when the Lucy and other hominids stood in two legs.
6)I am homo sapiens.
Missing-Assignments 2,3,4 and 5
Assignment 3
Human Origins-The Puppet Play ProjectResponse
Note you will have 3 class periods to prepare your plays. See Resources-1
Answer the following questions on your wiki page.
1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project?
2. What Problems did your group run into?
3. How did your group deal with these problems?
4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories.
5. Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).
1) My role of this Puppet show was the director. And from the puppets I did marduk and god 2.
2) The problem we had was that our team didn't worked very well with each other.
3) We couldn't really deal with this problem.
As of due date missing.
Assignment 2
Just like the questions you were asked in class, please create five questions about the timeline we used in class.
Click here ----->
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Timeline of Human History.pdf to see a copy of the timeline. Write your questions and the answers on your wiki page.
Assignment 1
Using your notes and page 4 from your online textbook, answer the following questions on your wiki page.
1. Were you born in a BCE year or an CE year?
2. Put the following dates in order: AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 1215
3. If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean? Type in the content of your page here.
Answer: Assignment 1
1) I was born in the C.E year.
2) 3100 B.C, 15 B.C.E, A.D
3) A.D 476, C.E 1215, A.D 2000 number 3?
Assignment 3-4
Part 1: Go to this site and read about the different Egyptian gods and goddesses. Choose one of these that you would like to be and explain why you would like to be that god or goddess. Then choose one that you would not want to be and explain why. Make sure your explanations are middle school quality explanations.Part 2: Compare these Egyptian gods and goddesses with the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses. Did you find similar gods? Name the gods/goddesses and clearly explain the similarities? Why do you think they are similar even though Egypt and the Mesopotamian civilizations were different?
Assignment 3-3
Source: How to Mummify NefermaatDirections: Go to the link above to mummify a body. As you work to mummify the body, answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
Answer
1)----Assignment 3-2
Source: Pages 93 & 94 in your online textbook and refer to your river boat tour notesDirections: Answer the following questions clearly and with details on your wiki page.
1. Read the If YOU were there section. How do you feel about working for the pharaoh?
2. Eventually the Third Dynasty began in ancient Egypt. The Third Dynasty was the beginning of what historians call ............. . When did it start and end?
3. Explain how ancient Egyptians felt about their country and their pharaoh.
4. What were the responsibilities of the pharaoh?
5. What is best known about the famous pharaoh, Khufu? Can you name a specific monument built for him?
6.a Clearly explain the structure of society in the Old Kingdom. (Note: This should be a long answer.)
6.b. What may be some advantages and disadvantages of such a large segment of the population being farmers, servants, and slaves?
6.c. What did farmers do during flood season?
7. Clearly explain trading in ancient Egypt (what was traded and who they traded with).
8. Define the word acquire. Use acquire in an original sentence.
9. Using the drawing of Egyptian society on page 94, explain where Viziers would be placed?
Answer
1) Something that I would feel if I were working for pharaoh is that I would not like it to work for him because I don't like to work for other.2)It's called Old Egypt and it starts at 2700 BCE and ends at 2200 BCE.
3)something that egyptians felt about their pharaoh and their country is that they thought egypt belongs to gods and pharaoh was one of the gods.
4)The responsibilities that pharaohs had was
5)The best known pharaoh at Old Kingdom was Khufu, who ruled in 2500 BCE.
6a)
6b)
6c)Farmers helped pharaohs building project.
7)They traded gold, ivory, leopard skins,ostrich feather, incense, rare woods, and etc.
8) Acquire means "To gain possession of".
9)
Assignment 3-1
Source: Carefully read your online textbook pages 88 and 89. (Note: Make sure you scroll down on page 89 to see more information.)
Your task is to label a map of the Nile River and ancient Egypt on your current Scribble Map. You must mark, label, or represent famous sites, cities, and other objects. Label everything carefully.
(Note: Mark means use a marker, label means use a text label, represent means draw a symbol to show the item.)
1. Represent and label the Nile’s Sixth Cataract to the First Cataract. (Use the textbook to help you with this part.)
2. Label the Red Sea.
3. Represent three mines and three quarries. Provide an image and a description for each mine and quarry
4. Represent and label these historic sites: the Valley of the Kings, the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Pharos (lighthouse in the port of Alexandria), and the oasis of Faiyum-Include dates, palm trees, and crocodiles. Provide an image and a description for each historic site
5. Mark these cities: Abydos, Thebes, Hermopolis, Akhetaten, Memphis, Bubastis. Alexandria, Meroe, Khartoum, and Elephantine
6. Label these geographical features: the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nile Delta, the Sinai Peninsula, the Wadi el-Natrun, the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Nubian Desert. Provide an image and a description for each geographical feature.
7. Label Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.
Assignment 2-5
Use your online textbook pages 63 & 64 to answer these questions clearly and with details on your wiki page. Make sure to look through the whole page in your textbook and the links for the vocabulary when answering some of the questions.
Answer1:They lived in the north part of Sumer.
2:They lived very peaceful with the Sumerian.
3:Sargon is an Emperor of Akkadians and he had broken the peace with Sumerians.
4:He establish the world's first Emperor.
5:
6:
7:
8:
9:
10:
Assignment 2-1
Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the links above from the Class Activity 2-1to help you answer the questions.
Event A: Food Shortage
1. What helped the human population to grow in Mesopotamia?
Some thing that helped the human population to grow was the agriculture.
2. What does cultivate mean?
Cultivate means the way to grow food.
3. By 5000 B.C.E. what major problem did the farmers in the Zagros hills have?
The problem that they had was that there is no food to eat for that large populations to eat.
4. Using the choices in the critical thinking section of the activity, what is the best way to deal with the food shortage? Why?
Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply
1. What two major problems did farmers have as they tried to grow their crops on the Mesopotamian river plains?
The two major problem was That the rivers flood by the tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
2. How did they solve these problems?
They solved this problem by make the Dams, Canals, and Reservoirs.
3. Where did the melted snow that caused flooding come from?
The melted snow came from the upper mountain.
Assignment 8
Use these two videos about Catal Huyuk to answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.- Catal Huyuk video 1
- Catal Huyuk video 2
1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you?2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class?
3. Jookie is a 12 year old living in Catal Huyuk. Explain three ways her life is different than yours. (Note: Simply saying you have cell phones and she doesn't is an unacceptable answer.)
Answer:
1)a. From the Catal Huyuk, first thing that expressed me was a way of the surgery of brain, it was so gross and not a good picture.b. Second thing is a thing that the fathers choose by a bribe that man give.
c. And the last thing is how they started to grow corns.
2) What tool that they used, the houses they used and the crops that they grow.
3) I am different from Jookie by the
Hominids and their Characteristics
1)Australopithecus were available to stand with the two legs.1)Homo Habilis are the first hominids to use the tools.
2)Homo Habilis were more like a modern people and they a bigger brain.
3)Homo Habilis are also called Handy man.
1)After homo habilis there were another group called homo erectus or upright man.
2)They knew how to control fire and they completely walk with the two legs.
1)And at last there are the Homo sapiens.
Aspects of Daily life effects notes
When they started to Growing food people started to stay at the one place.
Because Homo Habilis were available to stand in two legs They were easier to use or make a tool.
Vocabulary
Paleolithic
Neolithic
Homo habbilis
Australopithecus
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
Other notes
Ricky, can you tell me the meaning of the vocabulary? I get the word but there is no meaning of it!!-JS HuhAssignment 7
Write 3 good test questions covering any of the topics we have studied so far.Answer these questions clearly and completely on your wiki page.
1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period?
2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period?
3. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development of agriculture?
Answer:
1)Assignment 6
Use your online textbook (p. 40 & p. 41) to answer these questions clearly and completely. Please put your answers on your wiki page.1. Read the paragraph in the Beginnings of Agriculture section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?).
Read The First Farmers and Plants section on p.41 and answer these questions:
2. What is another name for the New Stone Age?
3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for?
4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now make fire. Which hominid would this be?
5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution?
6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'?
7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia?
8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated?
9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different than a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different.
Answer:
Assignment 5=
Read pages 32-34 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.
Answer:
1)Historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory because archaeology and anthropology it is part of the prehistory.2)The one advantage of walking upright is that you could use your hand very easily and freely.
3)The tools that they used at paleolithic era is the stone tools.
4) a: Fire stone- it is a stone that is use to make a fire.
b: Warming log- it is a log that is burn with the high heat.
5)The hunter-gatherers are the people that around to the places to palces. And had to find the food not by growing.
6)
7)
Assignment 4
Please read pages 29 & 30 from your online textbook and answer these questions clearly and in complete sentences on your wiki page.
1. On which continent were Lucy and other hominids found?
2. What is the scientific name of Lucy?
3. How long ago did Lucy live?
4. What was an important step in human development?
5. Describe and explain how these hominids are different from each other. Use the charts about the hominids on page 30 to help you with the answer.
Make sure your answer is clear and detailed.
6. Which hominid are you?
Answer:
1)They were found in Africa.2)The scientific name of lucy is Australopithecus.
3)Lucy had lived about 3 million years ago.
4)The important step in human development is when the Lucy and other hominids stood in two legs.
6)I am homo sapiens.
Missing-Assignments 2,3,4 and 5
Assignment 3
Human Origins-The Puppet Play Project ResponseNote you will have 3 class periods to prepare your plays. See Resources-1
Answer the following questions on your wiki page.
1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project?
2. What Problems did your group run into?
3. How did your group deal with these problems?
4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories.
5. Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).
1) My role of this Puppet show was the director. And from the puppets I did marduk and god 2.
2) The problem we had was that our team didn't worked very well with each other.
3) We couldn't really deal with this problem.
As of due date missing.
Assignment 2
Just like the questions you were asked in class, please create five questions about the timeline we used in class.Click here ----->
Assignment 1
Using your notes and page 4 from your online textbook, answer the following questions on your wiki page.1. Were you born in a BCE year or an CE year?
2. Put the following dates in order: AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 1215
3. If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean? Type in the content of your page here.
Answer: Assignment 1
1) I was born in the C.E year.
2) 3100 B.C, 15 B.C.E, A.D
3) A.D 476, C.E 1215, A.D 2000
number 3?